No one picks up the phone and say “ Hi Serisha how are you doing”? This episode shows an authentic and honest conversation with Serisha Barrat who felt crippled but found light in the darkness in an incredible journey.

Serisha started her first business at 17 and since then she’s been a successful entrepreneur with multiple companies. She tells the story of how she mimicked her boss and eventually became her own boss girl. "I made it happen for myself. I carried myself well because I'm not gonna look like my problems", she says.

Serisha is a social entrepreneur with key foundational values; impact is key driver for her businesses as well as financial freedom because she believes " I am not dependent on anyone to create my world and impact". As a problem solver she is always on the quest of - What are the gaps and how we fix it? and continues to build without reinventing the wheel.

On this episode she talks about corruption , rising in male dominated industry and snippet of her dating life. When there is so much noise around her and on social media she reminds herself "What am I doing is what matters to me".

Her words of wisdom

• Keep on trying everyday
• Be grateful for being safe, for family, for a new day to be who you want to be
• Dont compare yourself to anyone else
• Stay in your lane and focus on what you’re building
• Pray , I got my strength from god/divine
• Free your time from admin tasks and focus on building
• Understand what you need to do what resources you need to streamline your process
• Stop feeling sorry for yourself no one is coming to save you
• It's not a me problem it's many of us problem

Serisha shares her tips, management tools and hacks

• ChatGPT4 plus - many ways to plug in tools like canva and read pdfs, draft emails and send emails.
• Canva - create marketing materials.
• Apollo ai connected to linkedin to help find co-founders and investors.
• Dalle - Image generations.
• Midjourney - image generations.
• Jasper.ai - is an AI-powered writing assistant.
• Otter.ai - Meeting note taker
• Bard - stats and research
• Notion
• Rows ai - Financials projections.

Book recommendation: Can't Hurt Me: Master Your Mind and Defy the Odds by David Goggins

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